What are you doing for Thanksgiving?

[2ndTink]

@gimmie birdies I'm not sure if you're an inspiration or a bad example but I am now heading home with hatching eggs as well
@TwoCrows, I promise this was not planned, I just couldn't say no to FREE silkie hatching eggs I did manage to pass on Sebastopol goose eggs and I've wanted those for a few years, but, we don't have a goose setup, so I remained strong barely...

 

[gimmie birdies]

Here is pic of the Dumpling soup, my DH made using the recipe I posted on this thread.

 

[gimmie birdies]

2nd tink, I am jelly- i would love to have silky, and or Sebastopol hatching eggs! I do have 2 chicks that are 1/2 Silky, but they may be roosters.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

DD and her BF made Thanksgiving dinner Thanksgiving Day. I don't remember what all they made, But they enjoyed doing it and it sounds like it came out really good. They enjoy cooking together and make some really great sounding meals. I am looking forward to them being back home next year.

 

[2ndTink]

2nd tink, I am jelly- i would love to have silky, and or Sebastopol hatching eggs! I do have 2 chicks that are 1/2 Silky, but they may be roosters.

Ain't that always the luck? The ones we most want to be pullets turn out to be cockerels.

If we ever have a set up for geese, I really would like some Sebastopol, they look so pretty!

 

[TwoCrows]

@TwoCrows, I promise this was not planned, I just couldn't say no to FREE silkie hatching eggs I did manage to pass on Sebastopol goose eggs and I've wanted those for a few years, but, we don't have a goose setup, so I remained strong barely...

@2ndTink It was only a matter of time until hatching eggs jumped into your lap and stole away in your car. Keep us posted on the hatch!!

 

[Debbie292d]

Ain't that always the luck? The ones we most want to be pullets turn out to be cockerels.

If we ever have a set up for geese, I really would like some Sebastopol, they look so pretty!

I thought you were learning your lesson from me, as in never, ever hatch in the winter as you then have house chickens for months instead of weeks. '

Mine are a month old today. The five are the ones supposedly sold twice now, (3rd time's a charm.) The three I'm keeping, thus, in our living room until about March. Dang this is fun! I have to wait until Feb/March now though to hatch anymore. (Famous last words).

 

[2ndTink]

@2ndTink It was only a matter of time until hatching eggs jumped into your lap and stole away in your car. Keep us posted on the hatch!!

I'm glad you understand exactly what happened and exactly how innocent I am in this situation I'm contemplating a hatch along, this may be my "spring" silkie hatch if I get more than about 5 or 6 chicks to hatch. If I do another hatch for my birthday it will be layers. The caveat is that there's even less certainty on hat h rate on these eggs than usual.

I thought you were learning your lesson from me, as in never, ever hatch in the winter as you then have house chickens for months instead of weeks. '

Mine are a month old today. The five are the ones supposedly sold twice now, (3rd time's a charm.) The three I'm keeping, thus, in our living room until about March. Dang this is fun! I have to wait until Feb/March now though to hatch anymore. (Famous last words).

I'm hard headed, I know I shouldn't hatch eggs until spring, but, when you are given silkie eggs from hens purchased from a breeder you've been looking at for over a month hoping to buy eggs from them in the spring...

Famous last words indeed! You already have a chick setup in your living room, what's a few more little fluff balls? Hatch away!

 

[2ndTink]

Well, not sure how that post happened and reposted my previous post

 

[Debbie292d]

I'm glad you understand exactly what happened and exactly how innocent I am in this situation I'm contemplating a hatch along, this may be my "spring" silkie hatch if I get more than about 5 or 6 chicks to hatch. If I do another hatch for my birthday it will be layers. The caveat is that there's even less certainty on hat h rate on these eggs than usual.

I'm hard headed, I know I shouldn't hatch eggs until spring, but, when you are given silkie eggs from hens purchased from a breeder you've been looking at for over a month hoping to buy eggs from them in the spring...

Famous last words indeed! You already have a chick setup in your living room, what's a few more little fluff balls? Hatch away!

Oh Tink, you indeed got a deal nobody could pass up.

That's where I got into this too, from the breeder my Marsha and her siblings came from. But this "emergency deal" was half off, so $20. (I bought her day-olds last March for $15 each).

Originally I had made a deal with someone to split that $20 with me and take some. Three weeks later, she backed out. Then I had five sold again and as of yesterday, that one backed out. I looked on Facebook and saw someone looking for silkie hens. Well, who knows what these are but sent her a msg. The deal of $40 for five she agreed to. She'd have come today but she's an hour away and we're having a snowstorm so maybe Monday roads will be better.

I talk to these chicks and tell them they are loved even though they were turned down twice. I think they'll get over it.

Are you selling some of yours or waiting to see what you get? This'll be fun to see what we each wind up hatching next spring/summer with our other lovelies.